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Willa Cather, Wales, Wymore, and the World

… and through Wymore—which she alluded to in her novel My Ántonia.   Now retired, Steve Shively taught English at …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens A National Historic Landmark … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
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Willa Cather Biography

… periodical that reaches a broad audience beyond academy, is published three times a year by the National Willa … as in her novels of prairie pioneering,  O Pioneers!  and  My Á ntonia , but there are a succession of other places … listed 1876 as her birth year—is this quotation from My Antonia: "that is happiness, to be dissolved into something …
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Celebrate the Achievements of Willa Cather and her 150th Birthday

… Image Willa Cather, c. 1912 Image Talk by Dr. Robert Thacker, President, Willa … and cemented the reputation her prairie-plains novels ( O Pioneers!  [1913],  The Song of the Lark  [1915], and …
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Willa Cather Timeline

… 1870  — Silas Garber, former captain in the United States Army, and four other men file homestead claims near a site … later use this event in one of her most famous novels,  My Antonia . 1882  — Red Cloud becomes a division point for …
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Willa Cather and Material Culture: A Sesquicentennial Reflection

… the U.S. Capitol, June 7, 2023 Image A bronze statuette of Willa Cather by Littleton Alston Willa Cather Statue Dedication & … Library from Glenda J. Pierce, member of the Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors, and Jeff Kirkpatrick; it will …
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Reading Willa Cather with Mary Stuart Masterston & Jeremy Davidson

… Image Willa Cather, Mary Stuart Masterston, Jeremy Davidson, Hailey McAvoy, Jonathan Lawlor, Nomin Sandon … century. Cather’s groundbreaking fiction ( O Pioneers! , My Ántonia , One of Ours , Death Comes for the Archbishop ) … feature readings from actors Mary Stuart Masterson and Jeremy Davidson , plus musical performances by Hailey McAvoy …
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18th International Willa Cather Seminar

… , NY 10011 United States "Bright and Beautiful and Alive": Willa Cather's New York Intersections We hope you will make plans … well as the 2022 Warren Johansson Award from the W.A. Percy Foundation. An Abbreviated Tour of Cather's Greenwich …
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Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by … Letters at Smith College Libraries  AUTHOR: Melissa J. Homestead, University of Oklahoma and Anne L. Kaufman. …
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2015 Willa Cather International Seminar

… Image 2015 Willa Cather International Seminar March 2, 2015 15th … her first steps as a writer. Organized by the Willa Cather Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Cather … to editing Cather’s texts, running seminars and other events, and producing Cather Studies. The first …
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